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Trump is curious as to why Iran has not yet "capitulated" and agreed to curb its nuclear programme, as Washington builds up its military capability in the Middle East, Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff said.

“I don’t want to use the word ‘frustrated,’ because he understands he has plenty of alternatives, but he’s curious as to why they haven’t... I don’t want to use the word ‘capitulated,’ but why they haven’t capitulated,” Witkoff said in an interview on Fox News on Saturday.

“Why, under this pressure, with the amount of seapower and naval power over there, why haven’t they come to us and said, ‘We profess we don’t want a weapon, so here’s what we’re prepared to do’? And yet it’s sort of hard to get them to that place.”

Trump has ordered a huge buildup of forces in the Middle East and preparations for a potential multi-week air attack on Iran. Iran has threatened to strike U.S. bases if it is attacked.

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[–] madde@feddit.org 45 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

It's bring your child to work day in the US government now every day. Only the child is a geriatric buffoon with the emotional and intellectual complexity of a 3 year old and he's calling all the shots unchallenged by any adult in the room.

Never forget that more than 50 % of the US voters knew exactly what was coming, had previous experience with him fucking things up for 4 years straight and went "yeah, sounds like a solid guy to vote for".

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 9 hours ago

100% knew what was coming, 50% were raising any alarm bell they could, other 50% are just dumb as fuck I guess, or recist as fuck

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 2 points 7 hours ago

No, just less than 50% of voters. He didn't even win a simple majority of the popular vote.